in a sweat

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in a (cold) sweat

very frightened or anxious. I dreamed I'd left the tickets at home and woke up in a cold sweat. Just the thought of addressing all those people is enough to bring me out in a cold sweat. (= make me feel very anxious)

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After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context Then we went down, being in a sweat to know what the letter said. Tom Sawyer Detective by Twain, Mark View in context But the HOUYHNHNMS train up their youth to strength, speed, and hardiness, by exercising them in running races up and down steep hills, and over hard stony grounds; and when they are all in a sweat, they are ordered to leap over head and ears into a pond or river. Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context More results

References in classic literature

After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context

Then we went down, being in a sweat to know what the letter said.

Tom Sawyer Detective by Twain, Mark View in context

But the HOUYHNHNMS train up their youth to strength, speed, and hardiness, by exercising them in running races up and down steep hills, and over hard stony grounds; and when they are all in a sweat, they are ordered to leap over head and ears into a pond or river.

Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context

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